California Health and Safety Code

§ 123700

HSC § 123700 Effective Sep 29, 1996Div. 106 · Part 2 · Ch. 3 · Art. 2.5

Statute text

(a)Infant botulism is an acute, life-threatening paralytic disease of babies caused by a potent bacterial neurotoxin.

(b)Half of all cases of infant botulism in the United States occur in California, where the causative bacterial spores are known to be highly endemic. In any given year between 30 and 50 infants with botulism are hospitalized in California, thus qualifying infant botulism as an “orphan disease” as defined by the federal Orphan Drug Act of 1983 (P.L. 97-414, as amended).

(c)The cost of hospitalization of these afflicted babies for the five years 1988–92 were approximately fourteen million dollars ($14,000,000). Over two million seven hundred thousand dollars ($2,700,000) of these costs were paid by the State Department of Health Services through its Medi-Cal and California Children’s Services programs, while over one million four hundred thousand ($1,400,000) of these costs were absorbed as operating losses by California hospitals.

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Legislative history

Added by renumbering Section 330.10 (as added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 674) by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1023, Sec. 117. Effective September 29, 1996.